Nguyen Thi Dinh

Nguyen Thi Dinh (15 March 1920-26 August 1992) was Vice President of Vietnam from 19 April 1987 to 19 July 1992 (succeeding Le Quang Dao and preceding Nguyen Thi Binh) and the first female general of the PAVN.

Biography
Nguyen Thi Dinh was born in Ben Tre Province, French Indochina in 1920, and she served in the Viet Minh resistance before and during the First Indochina War, being imprisoned by the French from 1940 to 1943; she lost her first husband and child during her captivity. In 1960, she was a founding member of the NLF, and she was elected Chairwoman of the South Vietnam Women's Liberation Association in 1965. She also became the first female general of the PAVN and the Viet Cong, leading the all-female "Long-Haired Army" against the ARVN and the United States. After the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, she became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and served as Vice President of Vietnam from 1987 to 1992. She died in 1992 at the age of 72.